You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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